Arabs attack police in Jerusalem, one killed by Border Guards

Arabs attack police in Jerusalem, one killed by Border Guards

A group of Arabs threw about ten Molotov cocktails at Border Police in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. Arab sources report that security forces returned fire and killed one rioter before the rest dispersed.

Walla! news identifies the dead terrorist as Ayman al-Abasi, a 17-year-old from Silwan. He previously spent a year and a half in an Israeli prison for his involvement in a 2012 stabbing in Ras al-Amud. Al-Abasi’s brother is currently serving a seven-year sentence, also for stabbing a Jewish man.

Arab media claims that the Al-Abasi was moderately to severely wounded, then died in a hospital.

Police released a statement that read: “About 10 petrol bombs were thrown at border police officers in Ras al-Amud. The force, whose lives were in immediate danger, fired at the lower body of a suspect who was seen with a petrol bomb in his hand. A hit

could not be definitely identified.”

A police spokesperson says that the dead rioter was holding a lit Molotov cocktail in his hand, which the security forces considered an immediate lethal threat. The statement added that police did not see any confirmed hit on the teen.